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    API to get display name of an axis expression

    By default, the display name of an axis expression has slightly different syntax than the expression itself, e.g. "Max([col1])" is displayed as "Max(col1)". The display name is needed for several use cases, e.g. as category key in a color scheme a...
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Allow Admins to post in-tool messages to all connected clients.

    To provide better user engagement and more efficient use of resources, especially in light of dynamically scaling down the number of active Spotfire servers in a cloud configuration, Spotfire Admins should be able to broadcast important messages t...
    over 9 years ago in Spotfire / System Administration 0 Future Consideration

    Add hatching option to color setting

    Please add a hatching option to the color settings. Hatching is another way to increase color variation.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Show more than 250 colors in the legend

    Please increase the MaxValuesPerLegendItem from 250 to 1000 or more. In the manufacturing field, it is now common to apply 500 or more colors to each defect category and identify them with a legend.
    almost 2 years ago in Spotfire / Visualization 0 Future Consideration

    Add a Favourites folder and Recent Locations option to Information Designer

    THis would save a lot of time. The Information Designer doesn’t even remember where you were last, and open at that location. You have to constantly navigate from the root folder. Adding Favourites and Recent Locations would be a great help. Also,...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Information Services 2 Future Consideration

    AutoSynch Library TERR Data Function Parameters, not just scripts

    I'm able to force an auto-sync of a library function upon opening a Spotfire template. This is very useful for distributed templates among many users, as incremental changes in the function will be automatically pushed to every user. However, the ...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Data Functions / Scripting 2 Future Consideration

    Missing API for Graphical Table.CreateLayout

    We found out that we have APIs to programmatically scroll table plots, summary table and cross tables using API var table = visual.As<SummaryTable>();layout = table.CreateLayout(); But we do not have such API for Graphical tables. This is a ...
    over 5 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Need special API from TIBCO which enables us to apply hierarchy column to our custom visualizations (like Adv. boxPlot))

    Hi supporter, Pls, refer to the attached image. User made a hierarchy column, but it's not able to be applied to advanced boxplot(but fine to boxplot). Thanks!
    over 7 years ago in Spotfire / API 0 Future Consideration

    Import a list of tags

    Create a list of tags from a table (based on values from a column) instead of raising tags one by one.
    over 10 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions 5 Future Consideration

    Add YearAndMonth and Trunc Funtion

    I need a year/month combination constantly for calculations like "get data between two months ago 1st of the month to the end of next month" Having either or both of these functions would make this task much easier. Yes, I can accomplish both toda...
    over 8 years ago in Spotfire / Custom Expressions / Data Management 1 Future Consideration
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